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title: "FinTechs: Assessing Risk; Creating Effective Controls"
description: FinTechs continue to improve their risk assessment processes, leading to more effective controls.
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# [FinTechs: Assessing Risk; Creating Effective Controls](https://www.amlrightsource.com/resources/fintechs-assessing-risk-creating-effective-controls)

 Written by [AML RightSource](https://www.amlrightsource.com/resources/author/aml-rightsource) | May 26, 2021

In this edition of AML Voices, Elliot Berman, Creative Director at AML RightSource, Amelia Childress, Head of Compliance, Cash App at Square, Melissa Strait, Chief Compliance Officer at Coinbase and Chuck Taylor, EVP and Head of Financial Crimes Advisory at AML RightSource, discuss how continually improving the risk assessment process leads to implementation of an effective control environment.

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